The Final Fight between 5 Screencasts
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The Final Fight Between 5 Screencasts

on Oct 9th 2009 with 26 comments

Each day this week, we’ll post five of the top twenty-five videos from the Nettuts+/Screenr competition. Your job, if you choose to accept it, is to review these short web development video tips and choose your favorite one in the poll below. How should you judge? Quite simply – there are no rules! Pick the one that helped you the most. The most chosen video each day will earn a spot in the top five at the end of the week!

It’s our last day of this fun screencast competition! Don’t forget that voting is still open for the previous days as well. In this final day, you’ll learn about CodeIgniter, creating private WordPress pages, and progressive enhancement with JavaScript! Show your support and vote for your favorite one below!

1. How to Save Time and Code Less in CodeIgniter with Doctrine

2. Create Private Pages on a WordPress Site

3. Retrieving Data From YQL using jQuery

4. How to Add Beautiful Captions to Images Using jQuery

5. Progressive Enhancement with JavaScript


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  • http://mokshasolutions.com Moksha Solutions

    thanks to all, who posted there tutorials.

    • http://www.massbase.com/enatom enatom

      just like to say this is getting BORING… the whole screen cast battle thing. Can we have some traditional tuts and articles back please.

      • http://www.damiandawber.co.uk Damian Dawber

        @NETTUTS said back to written tuts next week!

      • http://www.complimedia.com Montana Flynn

        Their are plenty of other tutorial sites offering traditional style tutorials and articles. I give nettuts props for offering their users to contribute to the site through these short and quick tuts. I would rather watch a 5 minute screencast and learn something small then read a 30 minute tut that I have no real world use for.

        Thanks to all the submitters for their time and knowledge!

  • http://elijahmanor.com Elijah Manor

    When does the voting stop? I was posted on the 1st day & the voting is exhausting ;)

    Vote #3 “Jump-starting your Next jQuery Plugin” http://j.mp/14rCxA

    • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      Voting ends Monday at 12:00 AM (US Central Time).

      • http://elijahmanor.com Elijah Manor

        Good to know… thnx Jeff ;) Are you then picking the grand winner from there or is there a public vote off for from the top 5?

      • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
        Author

        Once we have the top five. About five members of the Envato staff will then rank them.

  • http://twitter.com/furley Furley

    progressive enhancement ftw

  • Al

    some great tutorials.
    has anyone compiled a list of all of them (not just the ones being voted on but all the rest as well)? screenr sure does not give a very good way to reference ones you might be interested in, doing a word search is not so good when you have no idea what topics might be covered on screenr
    Al

    • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      twitter.com/nettuts/favorites

      • Al

        I guess that works if people still put #nettuts in the title, otherwise not. I have had a problem with getting to the second page of entries when I used that link, have waited for some time but usually no go.

        thanks Jeff, when are you off to Aussie land?

        Al

      • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
        Author

        Hey Al – me too. Twitter needs to fix that. For now, simply disable JavaScript, and then click on the “More” link to view the rest.

        The Australia move was put on hold because of Visa reasons. It’s actually REALLY difficult to get into the country. :( Maybe one day…

      • Al

        thanks for the fix, will try it out, and good luck with the Aussie thing. really like what you are doing here on Net Tuts and TF regardless of where you are hanging your hat

        Al

  • http://www.damiandawber.co.uk Damian Dawber

    Out of interest, how many entries did you pick these 25 screencasts from? I guess about 100 or so from the favorites link?

  • Cozzy

    I like the #4 Adding Captions to Images with JQuery. Altho I would say that the div won’t resize smaller for smaller images. Therefore there will be a big visible div around the picture and the span will appear beside the pic instead of below because of this.

    Is there a way to resize the div depending of the size of the image, rather than actually entering the width into the css as this would make it only useful if all images were the same size??

    Altho it is a good screencast apart from this.

    • DerJo

      But he doesn’t use caching, shortcuts and could definitively chain better.

  • http://www.sorinistudor.ro Sorin Istudor

    i’ll give my vote to 2. Create Private Pages on a WordPress Site. It may be a subjective choice, but it satifies my needs.

    • http://www.ronenbekerman.com Ronen Bekerman

      I Like this one too… one question though – How can we limit just the user to see his menu item, and not show it all to all even though they can’t access… sometimes the client list itself is something you want to be private too.

  • http://sethetter.com Seth Etter

    Progressive enhancement with JavaScript is great! I learned some nice tricks from that one. It has my vote. :)

    All of them are great though without a doubt. Good work to all of you.

  • http://loige.altervista.org Loige

    YQL is really innovative, so i voted for that.
    Codeigniter tutorial is great too ;)

    Thankyou everybody for these videos :)

  • http://izulcybercafe.com izulcybercafe

    i’ll give my vote to number 1. Codeigniter…

    • http://www.phpandstuff.com Burak

      Thank you.

      If people are interested, I can also post a screencast showing how to add Doctrine to Codeigniter.

  • http://php-programming-tutorial.com Jonathan

    #4 is a nice effect. Thanks for the quick videos.

  • http://http//www.egg.isgreat.org eggward

    Codeigniter with doctrine I think is the best

  • eggward

    Please make another screen cast about doctrine and codeigniter. I am sure that it will make many people attracted. let’s rock Codeigniter with ORM. :)